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Laser Metrology for Precision Alignment of Transmission Gratings in the REDSoX Soft X-ray Polarimeter
Swati Ravi, Alan Garner, Jill Juneau +4
The Rocket Experiment Demonstration of a Soft X-ray Polarimeter (REDSoX) is a NASA sounding-rocket mission designed to perform the first astrophysical spectropolarimetry in the 0.2…
A new NASA Pioneer: the Globe Orbiting Soft X-ray Polarimeter (GOSoX)
Herman L Marshall, Sarah N T Heine, Alan Garner +16
The Globe Orbiting Soft X-ray Polarimeter (GOSoX) is a spectropolarimeter for the soft X-ray band. GOSoX is based on the Rocket Experiment Demonstration of a Soft X-ray Polarimeter…
Proof of Concept Measurements of Laterally Graded Multilayers for Soft X-ray Spectropolarimetry
Sarah Heine, Herman L. Marshall, Alan Garner +2
This work describes proof of concept measurements for a soft X-ray spectropolarimeter that utilizes laterally graded multilayer mirrors within a grating spectrometer. The work test…
Design and testing progress towards the first flight of the rocket experiment demonstration of a Soft X-ray Polarimeter (REDSoX)
Sarah N. T. Heine, Herman L. Marshall, Alan Garner +11
The Rocket Experiment Demonstration of a Soft X-ray Polarimeter (REDSoX) is a NASA-funded, sounding rocket mission. The rocket payload will measure polarization strength and direct…
Characterization of X-ray Detectors in the MIT X-ray Polarimetry Beamline
Sarah N. T. Heine, Herman L. Marshall, Benjamin Schneider +3
The MIT X-ray Polarimetry Beamline is a facility that we developed for testing components for possible use in X-ray polarimetry. Over the past few years, we have demonstrated that…